I use the Google Personalized Page has my default page while at work, and one of the things on it is a random quote (or quote of the day). Usually I don’t give it much thought; however I thought I’d share the one provided today…

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

That is from Marilyn Manson.

I don’t care what you think about him or his music, but that quote is absolutely true.

Earlier this week Google released an API for the Personalized Google Homepage. More information is available on the API page and the Google Blog.

There have already been a few modules created. Nothing really exciting at the moment.

Google has added a new feature to their “personal search history” service that helps tie it in a bit more with their personalized homepage (or portal). I’m sure something will appear on the Google Blog later that better describes what is new, but for now, here is my version:

The Google Search History now allows you to “star” results. These star results will appear on the left side of the search history page under “bookmarks”. The bookmarks can be edited and even labeled for better organization.

If you label something “homepage” it will show up on the Google Personalized Page, provided you have the bookmarks section visible. As with Google’s other services, you can add an item to more than one label to any item. As far as I can tell, additional labels right now will only aid in organization.

Also, in case you didn’t know. Google’s personalized home page has als had the ability to display your last 1-20 search queries for some time. It just needs to be enabled.

From an announcement on the Google Blog, Google’s Personalized Homepage has graduated from Google Labs. Because of this, you’ll now be seeing a “Personalized Home” link on the main Google site.

Google’s Personalized Homepage, like many other portal sites, allows you quick access to your GMail, news, stock quotes, movie listings, custom content (via RSS), and more. Though to be honest with you, I think it still needs a bit more work before it is as nice or as powerful as My Yahoo, My MSN, or many of the other portals. At least Google didn’t call it, “My Google”.

The time is here, Google has created a customizable portal for their main page.

You can check your GMail, stocks, news, weather, and more, or if your prefer the classic, minimalistic, clean, old school Google site, that is also available for you.

You can also move areas around like a customized Google News page. The Google Blog says that they hope to accept standard feeds soon, and I’d expect even more to come in due time.

I just hope ads, text or not, stay off of the main page.